ABSTRACT
‘Society’ is a vague term, but some precision may be given to it if it is regarded as referring to a social system. In more concrete terms, society thus viewed as a system consists of the banks, churches, trade unions, universities, businesses, legal and political institutions, and a host of less formally organised groups, which together give form and order to the community. But moral maturity also involves a response of a certain kind to the demands of duty, a certain quality of role-enactment. The importance of moral strategy is due to the fact that morality is a matter of relationships among people and no two people are quite alike in their outlook and response. Moral strategy in the sense intended is a function of the moral ideal. Rule and role morality is therefore essential, because it stresses that persons must be respected as such and cannot legitimately be interfered with, except in so far as they are harming others.
